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Use organically grown flowers and leaves. Gently rinse only if necessary. Serve on top of lettuce, lightly sprinkled with olive oil and your mildest vinegar; Champagne vinegar preferred.
The flowers here are nasturtium flowers and leaves, chervil flowers, chive flowers, pansies and violas, dame’s rocket, and petunias.
Flower Salad with Champagne Vinaigrette
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Recipe By: Sheila McDuffie
Serves: 4 servings
Ingredients
- 2 tablespoons finely chopped shallot
- 2 tablespoons Champagne vinegar vinegar
- 1 tablespoon Dijon mustard
- ¼ teaspoon fine sea salt
- ⅛ teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
- ⅓ cup extra-virgin olive oil
- Assorted organically grown edible flowers, nasturtium leaves, herbs, or baby salad greens
Instructions
- Place the shallot, vinegar, mustard, salt, and pepper in a medium-size mixing bowl. Whisk to combine, and let sit for 5 minutes to mellow out the shallot.
- Whisk the olive oil in with a slow, steady stream. Continue whisking until the oil is emulsified with the vinegar or citrus. Taste and adjust seasoning. Is the oil/vinegar ratio balanced? Is there enough salt?
- Arrange flowers and leaves in bowls and lightly drizzle with vinaigrette.
- Serve immediately.
Sweet!
Sheila
Edible Flowers